Biographical Sketch

Hilde Geurts is currently a professor in clinical neuropsychology and professor by special appointment (focus Autism: Cognition across the life span) at the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam. One day a week she works as a senior researcher at the "Dr. Leo Kannerhuis". She recently finished her VIDI grant (MagW NWO, 2011-2016) and her fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) to study the effect of aging in autism. This work will be continued within her VICI project (MagW NWO, 2017-2022). She will focus on cognitive aging and (potentially beneficial) cognitive strategy use and autism outlook subtyping.

Hilde obtained a MSc in Neuro- and Rehabiliation psychology (1996) at the University of Nijmegen (Radboud University). Next she worked for approximately two years as a neuropsychologist in a psychiatric hospital for children. She received her PhD at the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Vrije Universiteit. Her PhD project focused on Executive control in ADHD and Autism spectrum Disorders (ASD) with prof.dr. J.A. Sergeant, prof.dr. H. Roeyers and prof dr. J. Oosterlaan as advisors. In the meanwhile she worked as a lecturer at the Department of Clinical Psychology (UvA). From 2002 till 2009 she was assistant professor Clinical Neuropsychology at the Psychonomics section (currently known as Brain & Cognition, UvA) and from 2009 onwards she she was associate professor at the same department. From 2013 to 2018 she is a member of the Young Academy of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science (KNAW) and recently she co-founded the Amsterdam Young Academy. In 2014 she already co-founded the research network reach-aut (see www.reach-aut.nl) in which a wide range of stakeholders are together shaping autism research. From 2017 till 2019 years she is vice-president of the International Society of Autism Research (INSAR).

Research Interests

The main focus of her work is on so called neurodevelopmental disorders, especially Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). She focuses on cognition (especially cognitive control/executive functioning), inter & intra individual variability, quality of life as well as interventions across the life span. Recent ongoing projects focuses on both teens and (older) adults for an overview of all studies please see www.dutcharc.nl .

Selected publications

Please, see for overview of all her output (publications [including recently accepted ones], presentations, media) http://www.dutcharc.nl/team/hilde-geurts/. Most of her papers can also be found on research gate.

Geurts, H.M. (June 2007). What is in a game: modulation of cognitive control in ADHD and ASD. ISRCAP meeting, London. Poster.

Geurts, H.M. (June 2007). What's in a game? Cognitive control in ADHD and ASD . Developmental Social CognitiveNeuroscience (Piaget meeting), London. Oral Presentation (organiser of symposium on ADHD and social cognition).

Teaching
Hilde Geurts is a lecturer in several courses in both the bachelor and master "Clinicial Neuropsychology". These courses are related to (neuro)psychological assessment, psychopathology (children and adults), and clinical neuropsychology.

Scheeren, A. M., & Geurts, H. M. (2015). Research on community integration in autism spectrum disorder: Recommendations from research on psychosis. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 17, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2015.05.001[details]

de Vries, M., & Geurts, H. (2015). Influence of autism traits and executive functioning on quality of life in children with an autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Development Disorders, 45(9), 2734-2743. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-015-2438-1[details]

Lidmaatschap

Geurts, H. M. (2017). Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science.

Geurts, H. M. (2017-2018). "Societal (re)integration of young adults with ASD and/or psychoses”, The program committee of MagW .

Geurts, H. M. (2017-2018). CASS8+.

Geurts, H. M. (2014-2018). A collaborative network of more than 30 Dutch Autism Institutions to bridge the gap between academic and clinical research and with participation of (…), Initiator of the Reseach Network Autism (Reach-Aut, 2014-2018),.

Geurts, H. M. (2012-2017). a nationwide network of clinics specialized inthe care of adults with autism; from 2012 and will end in December 2017, Executive board of CASS 18+.